Sara Guyer
Dean, Division of Arts & Humanities
Professor, Department of English
Sara Guyer is the Dean of Arts & Humanities and Professor of English. Her term as Dean began in September 2021 following a career devoted to advancing the humanities, with special attention to public-private coalitions, innovative faculty research programs, the public humanities, and inclusive collaborations across the globe.
As the Dorothy Puestow Draheim Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Guyer distinguished herself as a leader in the humanities by serving as director of the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, president of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and director of the World Humanities Report.
Guyer’s scholarship encompasses the fields of Romanticism, Jewish Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, and also the Humanities itself. She has written two books, Romanticism after Auschwitz and Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism, and is coeditor of the book series Lit-Z alongside Brian McGrath. Guyer earned her master’s and doctoral degree in rhetoric at UC Berkeley, as well as a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Warwick and a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature and European cultural studies from Brandeis University.
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